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title: late for the bus, gonna sprint across the road — Time, routines and sleep · tree and pragmatics
description: late for the bus, gonna sprint across the road Test 15 · ★ of lesson 39 «Time, routines and sleep» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 15 · ★ · Time, routines and sleep

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
late for the bus, gonna sprint across the road

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** sprint · **To what, where:** road

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This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 39 «Time, routines and sleep» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/39-time-and-routines/#t15).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:39-time-and-routines:t15:1
# text = late for the bus, gonna sprint across the road
1	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	dep	_	_
7	sprint	sprint	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	across	across	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sprint** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the road |  | for the bus; late *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across road=Trajectory |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Run without looking to save time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:39-time-and-routines:t15:o1:1
# text = Run without looking to save time
1	Run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **save** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Run and look after you are across

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:39-time-and-routines:t15:o2:1
# text = Run and look after you are across
1	Run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	across	across	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | across *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **does** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Stop and cross safely, it is better to miss the bus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:39-time-and-routines:t15:o3:1
# text = Stop and cross safely, it is better to miss the bus
1	Stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	cross	cross	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	expl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	parataxis	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	miss	miss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	csubj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **cross** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | safely *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **miss** | to-infinitive |  | the bus |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bus=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Run, drivers will stop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:39-time-and-routines:t15:o4:1
# text = Run, drivers will stop
1	Run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	drivers	driver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | future | drivers |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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